‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds’

We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

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About Ellen Ringstad

I'm a Norwegian-Portuguese installation artist working in the golden fields of 'contemporary art'. Refuse To be A Coward is a processual blog loosely relating to my own artistic interests/research/production. Paths may appear, disappear and re-appear without prior notice.

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